Stability and intra-tester reliability of an in vivo measurement of thoracic axial rotation using an innovative methodology

Manual Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 452-455

  Heneghan, Nicola R ^a   Hall, Alison ^b   Hollands, Mark ^a   Balanos, George M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Medical Ultrasound   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axial rotation; Motion analysis; Reliability; Thoracic spine

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; METHODOLOGY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SPINE MOBILITY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORACIC SPINE; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 67349145980     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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